Best William Blake Quotes

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. Life and Living

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Energy is eternal delight. Health

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I must create a system or be enslaved by another man s; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. Creativity

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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern. Perception

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To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour. Eternity

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away. Truth

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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. Sorrow

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Eternity is in love with the productions of time. Eternity

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Expect poison from standing water. Idleness

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. Wisdom

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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. Christians and Christianity

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No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. Possibilities

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Exuberance is beauty. Beauty

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent Truth

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The weak in courage is strong in cunning. Cunning

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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. Candor

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The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom. Excess

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When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty. Vision

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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. Fools and Foolishness

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My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud. Birth

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He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise. Joy

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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. Punishment

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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star. Stardom

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. Wisdom

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He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence. Desire

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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. Opinions

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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. Nature

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The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass. Luck

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Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. Challenges

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. Truth

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do. Truth

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For Mercy has a human heartPity, a human face:And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress. Then every man of every clime, That prays in his distress, Prays to the human form divineLove Mercy Pity Peace. Uncategorised

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To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess. Generalizations

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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. Fun

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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown. Fame

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Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy. Heaven

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You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time. Piety

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure. Time and Time Management

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I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. Resentment

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake. Friends and Friendship

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Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. Energy

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Opposition is true friendship. Opposition

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That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians. Judaism and Jews

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds. Business

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When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head! Birds

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Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse. Christians and Christianity

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What is now proved was only once imagined. Imagination

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Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true. Bureaucracy

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed. Truth

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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers. Vision

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